Poll of the Day > Windows 10 PC using 100% HDD usage and slow AF, UGH

(+) Yeah! (+)

It was doing this a few months ago, so I took my PC apart and plugged my PS4 HDD lying around, installed OS on there and now it just started doing it again
Fuck my old PC from 2012 >:(

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you're using shitty 5400rpm drives

yes, it is going to be slow as hell

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HellHole_ posted...

you're using shitty 5400rpm drives

yes, it is going to be slow as hell

Why would it work fine for 3 months and then start being shitty again though?

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Might be doing something in the background, virus scan or defrag?

Try disabling indexing and system restore.

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Red_Frog posted...

Might be doing something in the background, virus scan or defrag?

I don't think so. I turned on my PC just now after taking a nap and seems to be working great...for now. I got it working for a bit with the old HDD (Even completely uninstalled windows and replaced with Linux) but eventually stopped working on that too, so I assumed my HDD was just dead.
Now I'm kinda freaking out because it JUST started doing the same thing with the PS4 Pro HDD I had installed. Is my PC just killing HDDs for some reason or what?
Like I said it's working great right now but I don't know if that will last given last time.
I ordered a brand new PC about a month ago but order has been delayed because of graphics card shortage. Really hope I can somehow keep this one going for just a little bit longer :/

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I had a computer doing this recently.

it turned out to be an error in the Windows Store app. Windows Store would get an error like 10 times a second, and would log the error that often. except that many errors filled the windows store log, and the fact that the windows store log was full was being recorded in the main log. so you have dozens and dozens of errors being written to the HD constantly.

if you run resource monitor, choose the disk tab, and open the disk activity drop down/accordion thing, you can see what files are being written to by what processes and how much disk throughput is being consumed by it.

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Sahuagin posted...

if you run resource monitor, choose the disk tab, and open the disk activity drop down/accordion thing, you can see what files are being written to by what processes and how much disk throughput is being consumed by it.

Thanks! Next time it starts staying at 100% I'll take a look at it.

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